UW Research
July 13, 2012
UW deploying seismic sensors in hope of getting to bottom of Spokane quakes
Researchers working on NASA’s Kepler Mission have discovered an unlikely pair of planets — one similar to our planet, and the other roughly the size of Neptune — locked in a surprisingly close orbit around a distant star located more than a thousand light years from Earth.
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Researchers working on NASA’s Kepler Mission have discovered an unlikely pair of planets — one similar to our planet, and the other roughly the size of Neptune — locked in a surprisingly close orbit around a distant star located more than a thousand light years from Earth.
Source: redOrbit (http://s.tt/1fsUf)
It’s been a decade since a swarm of relatively mild earthquakes shook up parts of Spokane. Now, armed with the right tools, scientists want to find out what was at fault.
“It was always something not as well understood as we thought it should be,” said Douglas Gibbons, a University of Washington researcher in Earth and space sciences, who is guiding installation of strong-motion sensors as part of a project called NetQuakes.
NetQuakes will install a half-dozen seismometers in the Spokane area by the end of June, mostly in volunteers’ homes, to help improve understanding of what lies beneath the city.
Read the full article in UW Today.